John Bannister Tabb Poems

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31.
The Bobolink

Your notes are few,
But sweet your song
As honey-dew;
And all day long,
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32.
The Departed

THEY cannot wholly pass away,
How far soe’er above;
Nor we, the lingerers, wholly stay
Apart from those we love:
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33.
Racers

The winds from many a cloudy mane
Shake off the sweat of gathering rain
And whicker with delight;
No slope of pasture-lands they need,
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34.
The Bluebird To The Canary

As you're a yellow little fellow,
I hope you do not mean
To come too near; for blending, dear,
Would turn our feathers green.
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35.
The Lark

He rose, and singing passed from sight:-
A shadow kindling with the sun,
His joy ecstatic flamed, till light
And heavenly song were one.
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36.
The Life-Tide

EACH wave that breaks upon the strand,
How swift soe’er to spurn the sand
And seek again the sea,
Christ-like, within its lifted hand
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37.
The Light Of Bethlehem

'Tis Christmas night! the snow,
A flock unnumbered lies:
The old Judean stars aglow,
Keep watch within the skies.
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38.
The Grave-Digger

Here underneath the sod,
Where night till now hath been,
With every lifted clod
I let the sunshine in.
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39.
The Phantom Wraith

When roars the wind and beats the rain,
A face before my window-pane-
A phantom of the storm-I see,
My own benighted effigy.
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40.
The Maternity

One through Mother Mary, we
With Thy warm humanity;
And through Thee, her only Son,
With our heavenly Father one;
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